From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: jun.nakajima@intel.com, davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, richard.brunner@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:14:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030930201418.2a1cdeb4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031001025128.GD32209@mail.shareable.org>
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
>
> Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> > Oh, I thought you already closed this issue and you were discussing a
> > different thing.
> >
> > I agree. They kernel should fix up userspace for this CPU errata.
>
> Our question is whether kernels configured specifically for non-AMD
> (e.g. Winchip or Elan kernels) must have the AMD fixup code (it is a
> few hundred bytes), refuse to boot on AMD, ignore the problem, or work
> but not fix up userspace.
Refusing to boot would be best I think. Fixing it up anyway would be OK
too.
Ignoring the problem in kernel and/or userspace could be viewed as a
response to pilot error but as always it would be nice if, given a choice,
we can help the pilot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-01 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-01 2:23 [PATCH] Mutilated form of Andi Kleen's AMD prefetch errata patch Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-01 2:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 3:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2003-10-01 6:47 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 7:06 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 7:31 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 7:41 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 8:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-10-01 8:49 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 9:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 14:51 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 14:56 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 15:19 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 15:24 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 16:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 7:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 7:39 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 8:20 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20031001065705.GI1131@mail.shareable.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-10-01 7:15 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 7:24 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-01 7:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 8:00 ` Andi Kleen
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2003-10-01 4:30 Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-01 5:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 5:48 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 6:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 6:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 6:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 1:54 Nakajima, Jun
2003-10-01 2:07 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-01 2:08 ` Mike Fedyk
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2003-09-30 19:08 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-30 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-09-30 7:38 Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 8:01 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-30 13:22 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-30 13:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 13:53 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-30 14:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 15:08 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-30 16:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 17:26 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-30 23:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01 0:27 ` Andrew Morton
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